In 2017 the company premiered Cassie, a pair of robotic legs that could run and walk over all kinds of rough terrain. The robot was a breakthrough in engineering, and was purchased by robotics labs at universities across the country for experimentation and study.
Now, Agility Robotics has launched Digit, a robot that, as the name implies, has arms. The robot is capable of walking, and picking up and putting down objects. While that might not seem like much, the company has formed partnerships with four large companies, including Ford Motors, which intends to develop the robot for commercial use.
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The robots occupying our sidewalks – TechCrunch
The robot, shaped like a large cooler on wheels, zipped along somewhere ahead of me. My left hand clasped the smooth leather harness of my German shepherd guide dog. "Mylo, forward." The speed of his four short legs complemented the strides of my longer two — call it the six feet fox trot. Together we glided past the competition.
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The Mountain View City Council voted on May 5, 2020 to allow Starship Technologies' robots on city streets . Founded in 2014, Starship operates no-contact delivery robots in several cities around the world. Customers schedule deliveries of food, groceries or other packages through the Starship app.
Here's why human-robot collaboration is the future of manufacturing | World Economic Forum
Soldiers could teach future robots how to outperform humans -- ScienceDaily
In the future, a Soldier and a game controller may be all that's needed to teach robots how to outdrive humans.
At the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin, researchers designed an algorithm that allows an autonomous ground vehicle to improve its existing navigation systems by watching a human drive. The team tested its approach -- called adaptive planner parameter learning from demonstration, or APPLD -- on one of the Army's experimental autonomous ground vehicles.
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Robotics and Automation News Review: Fanuc and Kuka launch new robots, Pittsburgh ready to go to
Friday 14 August 2020 : This is a new, weekly column – to be published every Friday – which rounds up all the most interesting news from the robotics and automation industry in the past seven days, in brief form.
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Comau Robotics says it has created an "innovative, in-line testing and quality control system that optimizes the construction and assembly of batteries". The company says the MI.RA / Thermography system uses thermal imaging and artificial intelligence to perform non-invasive automated assessment and control of welded joints, to ensure battery integrity and prevent waste.
Sounds of action: Using ears, not just eyes, improves robot perception | EurekAlert! Science News
VIDEO: Carnegie Mellon University researchers devised an apparatus called Tilt-Bot to build a collection of actions, video and sound to improve robot perception. Objects were placed in a tray attached to... view more
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PITTSBURGH--People rarely use just one sense to understand the world, but robots usually only rely on vision and, increasingly, touch. Carnegie Mellon University researchers find that robot perception could improve markedly by adding another sense: hearing.
Robots who can hear work more like humans: Researchers : The Tribune India
Giving robots, who currently rely on vision and touch to move around, power to hear sounds and predict the physical properties of objects around them can be a game changer, say researchers including two of Indian origin.
People rarely use just one sense to understand the world, but robots usually only rely on vision and, increasingly, touch.
The researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) now say that robot perception could improve markedly by adding another sense: hearing.
Analyzing Water Quality With A Pair Of Robots | Hackaday
To adequately study a body of water such as a lake, readings and samples need to be taken from an array of depths and locations. Traditionally this is done by a few researchers on a small boat with an assortment of tools that can be lowered to the desired depth, which is naturally a very slow and expensive process. As the demand for ever more granular water quality analysis has grown, various robotic approaches have been suggested to help automate the process.
The surface vehicle, assembled from five gallon buckets and aluminum extrusion, uses a Pixhawk autopilot module to control a set of modified bilge pumps acting as thrusters. With ArduPilot, the team is able to command the vehicle to follow pre-planned routes or hold itself in one position as needed. Towed behind this craft is a sensor laden submersible inspired by the Open-Source Underwater Glider (OSUG) that won the 2017 Hackaday Prize .
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